Stumbled across this a few days back: “End big time corruption, PM tells Indians“.
I find it hard to agree. The major problem is�”small time” corruption: the licenses, the permits, the restrictions, the delays, the reality of�”kuch�de ke karva lijiye” (pay and get it done).
Big time corruption is a problem even in�developed countries and we are certainly not the only ones (See one of my articles on this issue: “Corruption in Public Life � Are we the only�ones?“) but it is small-time babu-giri that hinders productivity, de-motivates, creates unnecessary barriers and …

A few days ago, I came across the BBC new story on why the numbers for AIDS patients in India may be an overestimate: India ‘overestimates’ HIV/Aids” (Wednesday, 13 December 2006).
The study suggested that “methods used to estimate the number of people infected by HIV/Aids in India” were “flawed and the actual number of cases may be far lower”. The survey of blood samples reported by British journal BMC Medicine suggests the true figure may be 40% of that.
Now, a lot has been written about how an AIDS epidemic …